Neo Kobe - Fujitsu FM Towns (2016-02-25) [Repack]
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=== Overview ===
The Fujitsu FM Towns was a series of personal computers, most notable for its inclusion of a CD-ROM drive as a standard component across all models. The FM Towns was aggressively marketed as a high-end but easy-to-use "hyper media PC" for general users.
The FM Towns was cleverly designed: a minimal DOS and CD-ROM drivers were baked into a ROM chip and set as a hidden C:\ partition. This allowed the computer to "boot" CD-ROMs directly, like a video game console. Fujitsu also developed TownsOS, a graphical, mouse-driven shell similar to early Windows.
The FM Towns was a powerful gaming machine, originally featuring an Intel 386 processor, with color-rich graphics, digitized PCM sound, and hardware-based sprite support that was sorely lacking in the 8-bit Japanese computers. When combined with the guaranteed CD-ROM drive, the FM Towns provided a powerful and versatile game platform. On the other hand, the FM Towns was also victim to the "multimedia" fad of the early 1990s, and a lot of fluff software and edutainment titles were also released.
Because of its high price point, and Fujitsu's ongoing failure to claim much business PC market share against rival NEC, the FM Towns remained a niche machine throughout its lifetime. Later models gradually transformed into ordinary IBM PC-compatible computers with a partially-emulated "Towns mode", and the last model to support the Towns platform was released in the summer of 1997.
=== FM Towns Marty ===
The FM Towns Marty was Fujitsu's attempt to convert the FM Towns computer platform into a video game console in 1993. The result was the worst of both worlds: too limited and underpowered as a computer, and too overpriced as a console.
Compatibility was a problem, usually because of the Marty's limited and non-upgradeable RAM.
The Marty was a complete diaster for Fujitsu. The Marty failed to reach even 5% of expected sales, and despite a lower-priced relaunch as the Marty Model 2, was quickly forgotten in the wake of the Sony PlayStation and the Sega Saturn.
Later, Fujitsu tried to recoup its losses and use the Marty design to break into the car navigation system market, leading to the GPS-equipped Car Marty. So if you want to watch your kids play games on a 5-inch TV in your car while you drive, that's... nice?
Ultimately, Fujitsu sold about 10 FM Towns computers for every Marty sold (despite the computer being much more expensive). Furthermore, there were never any Marty exclusives, only Marty-compatible releases of existing FM Towns games.
The Marty has gained a kind of cult status among retro videogame collectors, but talking about "Marty games" is as silly as talking about "TurboExpress games".
=== Running software ===
Most software comes on CD. Simply insert and power on.
To save the game, a floppy disk is typically used. Most games will write to any formatted disk, so you can reuse the same floppy for multiple games. (You can use the [OS] MS-DOS formatted blank disk included in this set.)
Other games have a special user disk formatting procedure, and some games come packaged with a required system disk or boot disk.
A small number of games need to be installed or launched from the Towns System Software (TownsOS). You can use one of the included [OS] Towns System Software v2.1 L51 hard disk images in this case.
TownsOS is pretty intuitive. The default view only shows preregistered icons, but you can switch to a files view by clicking the upper-left screen corner in TownsOS v1.1, or from the drop-down menu at the upper-right window corner in TownsOS v2.1.
[cmos.dat]
The FM Towns stores boot order information in battery-backed memory (aka CMOS memory). This information is needed to mount hard drive images, and is imaged as a cmos.dat file. To mount a hard drive image in an emulator, copy the included cmos.dat to the emulator directory, boot up, and then reset while holding down "H" and "0" (zero) simultaneously.
=== Input ===
In the standard setup, a gamepad is plugged into port 1, and a mouse into port 2. If the controls don't work, try switching the ports or disabling the gamepad and/or mouse.
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